”Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once walked across a Surrey park at dusk in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life; the man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.”
The Unicorn Road (2008)
Martin Davies
How to tell so much in so few words? Her name, her birth, the destination of her journey, all the places she would pass through… And more than that. She must tell the women of Zaiton of her plans, of her dreams, of her love for Song Rui, and ask them for their prayers on her behalf. And she must show them her strength, for it they thought her a mere girl, why should they trust her with their messages?
Are You Going to Stay? (2015)
Thomas Meyer
The way
a passing thought knots the heart.
There’s nothing, nothing to say.